Week 5 Update - Project Shoveler

One of the main things we've aimed to do this week was just get generally more used to the Unity environment, along with aiming to understand how our previous knowledge of using programs like eclipse can be adapted to work with Unity's systems.

We also split into teams of two, with Riley and Mulualem researched ways to connect two users together and allow them to send their current scores of their run of the game on a leaderboard, along with making some sort of text chat between the two users. They ended up with a free asset called vivox, which is a premade asset that allows two users to communicate via either text chat or voice chat.

Meanwhile, Landen and I, Alex, looked into how path-finding AI's work in Unity in order to use them for enemy movements in the game. Using unity's NavMesh feature, you can create a walkable area that an object attatched with a NavMesh Agent then knows it can walk on. The object then can move to wherever you set the destination point, such as the player character if it were attatched to an enemy.

Overall initial development has been slow, however it will be speeding up in the near future as we begin to get the basics down and layout a base for our game!

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Week 11 - Demo week!

This week we presented our first demo to the class. We combined all the work we had completed up to this point into a single demo branch. We had room generation by Alex, the player controller by Landen, UI from Mulu, and enemy AI from Riley. Overall, we believe that are project did well during demo day.

Week 12 and 13

Development on the Project In these two weeks, we have added new futures to the game. Landon is has been working on multiplayer. Alex has been working on room generating, Riley has been working on sound effects and covid-19 fact displaying inside the room. Finally, Mulu is working on health and shield boost. The above futures will be included in the final product demo.

Week 7 and 8 Update

For the past two weeks we have been making more progress in this game project. First, we all decided to split focus and look at some different pieces that we need to put together: Landen decided to work on player movement and basic abilities, Riley decided to work on enemy movement and behaviors, Mulualem decided to work on room layouts, and I, Alex, decided to work on basic random level generation. So far we've seen some good progress. The player character currently is able to move around a 3D space with the camera following it, and is able to shoot projectiles that stop after a set distance and don't go through walls. Basic enemy mechanics are nearly finished, and room layouts along with level generation will take a good chunk of time as there is a lot of work to be put into it.

CSC 490 Shoveler Project

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